road chaos

This article explains: “Britain will have two four day holiday weekends in succession thanks to the Royal Wedding following the Easter break. This is likely to trigger some of the heaviest traffic in years, according to the AA.”

Some 18 million cars will be on the road over the Easter weekend, of which 10 million will be motorists going on a break.

I remember laughing at my first visit of the decade to St Ives at the Park and Ride – I soon learnt the error of my ways.

I thought the price of parking was steep at the Dales Countryside Museum until I thought of the number of cars likely to be there over Easter.

I remember tensions between a coastal authority I worked with and a sea side town council over who should run the car parks.

It seems to me that there are real opportunities to think more creatively about how to manage bank holiday traffic in key rural locations where maximising visitor opportunities is crucial to the making the seasonal nature of tourism businesses work.

It also seems to me that apart from in a very few places local authorities don’t take thinking these issues through seriously enough. You will no doubt tell me if I am wrong….